Thatched cover for stacks



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R. GRISWOLD. THATGHBD COVER FOR, str-AGES. y

Patented Feb. 22, 1887.

No.y 358,195.

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES v PATENT OFFICE.

BOBEB'L` GBISWOLD, OF VVOODY, KANSAS.

THATCHED COVER FOR STAGKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358.195, dated February22, 1887. -Applicationrfiled June 30, 1886. Serial No. 206,699. (Nomodel.)

Kansas have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ThatchedCovers for Stacks and other Structures, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specication, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the igures.

Figure l is a side elevation ofa stack to which my improvement has beenapplied. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of a section of the thatch-coverenlarged.

The object of this invention is to provide inexpensive adjustable coversfor stacks, ricks, sheds,and other structures, and which shall be soconstructed as to allow the steam generated in stacks to escape whileexcluding rain and to prevent the tops of stacks from being blown off.

The invention consists ina thatched cover made in sections of vegetablefibers sewed together, and provided with ropes having loose upper endsto be tied together and loose lower ends to receive balan cing-weights,to adapt the cover to be removably secured in place.

The invention further consists in the combination,with thesectionsprovided with ropes having loose upper ends to be tied. together andloose lower ends to receive Vbalancingweights of a binding-rope, wherebythe said cover is more `firmly secured in place, as will be hereinaftermore fully described.

Thethatched covers are made of grass,grain,

. pressed sorghum-stalks, or other suitable vegetable iibers sewedtogether with wire or twine. The covers can be made of ausingle lengthof long bers or of several courses of short iibers, with the lower partsof the upper courses overlapping the upper parts of the lower courses.The coveris designed to be made in sections A, which are sewed togetherwhen applied to a stack. Some or all of the sections A are made lowerends for the convenient attachment of y weights D. The ropes B at theupper ends of the sections A for one side of the stack are designed tohave loops upon their upper ends, for the convenient attachment of theends of the ropes B of the sections for the other side of the stack,which ends are without loops. The covers are further secured in place byone or more ropes, E, passed around the upper part of the staclgandhaving -the hangin g-ropes B attached to them. p

The covers thus constructed can be made in the winter or at otherleisure time and stored for use when required. Another advantage of thiscover is that it can be readily taken oft' after a heavy rain,to allowthe sides of the stack to dry, and again put on.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to securebyLetters Patent* 1. Athatched cover consisting of a series ofindependent sections, each composed of vegetable bers bound together andprovided with longitudinal ropes having free ends for securing theseveral sections together and in position, substantially as herein shownand described.

2. In a thatched cover, the combination of a series of independentsections, A, each provided with the longitudinal ropes B, having freeends, the transverse binding-ropes E, secured to the ropes B, and theweights D, secured to the lower ends ofthe said ropes B, substantiallyas herein shown and described.

Y ROBERT GBISVOLD.

